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From: Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:48:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef38762f0909161748u32ad56bcya3314fe28fd06ffe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3a6r5znq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ah, the manpage examples specifically give the --format=tar though.
>
> So what?

That looks like a manpage bug. In the version I have 1.6.4 the format
for archive is given like this:

 git archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
                         [--output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
                         [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-i
sh>
                         [path...]

So --format isn't marked as optional. Later in the manpage it mentions
tar as the default, but that contradicts this, and the examples use
--format=tar, so it's easy to miss.

>
>> Why not have  --format=tgz  then or something?  Or better yet, give
>> the filename on the command line and detect the format from the file
>> extension.
>
> That is an interesting enhancement and sounds like a useful feature.
>
I do like that idea.

git archive --output=myarchive.tar.gz HEAD is a bit more
straightforward, and still lets people pipe in the old way if they
want to.

I think someone mentioned we're already linking the requisite library?
Otherwise, you can always open up a pipe programmatically within git.
Don't you guys do something like that for ssh? I seem to recall it
complaining that ssh couldn't be found on windows, but maybe it was
just the library.

Prefix could be myarchive. I guess some people have more specific
requirements, but I usually just want it to be *sometime* so it
doesn't spew out tons of files into the directory I decompress it
into.

Brendan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09 21:27 obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-09 21:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-09 22:06   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-09-10 16:50     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 22:19         ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11  3:15         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 19:46       ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 20:17         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 20:23         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 22:04           ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 22:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 23:19               ` demerphq
2009-09-11  0:37                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-11  0:18               ` John Tapsell
2009-09-11  0:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10  0:09   ` Brendan Miller
2009-09-10  1:25     ` Todd Zullinger
2009-09-10  9:16     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:18       ` Eric Schaefer
2009-09-10 18:52         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 22:19       ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 14:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-11 22:01           ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 22:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-12 10:31     ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 18:32       ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 21:44         ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 22:21           ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 22:35             ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-09-12 22:43             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 23:08               ` John Tapsell
2009-09-13  2:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 17:36                   ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 17:36                     ` [PATCH 2/2] teach git-archive to auto detect the output format Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 18:52                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:17                         ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 21:27                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 18:34                     ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:13                       ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-17  0:48                   ` Brendan Miller [this message]
2009-09-17  1:27                     ` obnoxious CLI complaints Junio C Hamano
2009-09-09 21:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-09 22:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-09-10  1:32 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 18:54   ` Matthieu Moy

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